Tom Renner

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No one knows local sports quite like Tom Renner, The Daily Voice's Sports Editor. For 22 years, he covered the field for The Stamford Advocate. He's been in Fairfield County since 1987.

Tom was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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New Canaan, CT

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New Canaan Nipped in 9th by Fairfield The Fairfield Mariners and the New Canaan Cannons stepped onto the field Sunday morning at Mead Park as the only unbeaten teams just two weeks into the Fairfield County Men's Senior Baseball League. The defending league champion Mariners pushed a run home in the ninth to nip the Cannons, 3-2. Fairfield grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the first on a single and stolen base by Imtiaz Vohra. Rob Ayala's RBI single gave the Mariners the lead. New Canaan answered with two runs on an RBI groundout and Mario Lopez's RBI double. Eric Dube doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Bob Mingutz to knot it …

by Tom Renner

05/23/2011

Westport, CT

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Tennis Ace Smacks Shots at Weston Club Professional tennis player Jared Palmer traded shots and offered advice to members of Aspetuck Valley Country Club in Weston on Sunday. Palmer visited the club and offered tips and instruction to about 25 club players. Palmer is a two-time tennis grand slam doubles champion. He won the Australian Open with Richey Reneberg in 1995 and Wimbledon with Donald Johnson in 2001. Palmer was ranked No. 1 in the world in doubles in 2000 he won four tournaments that year with three partners and owns 28 doubles titles. He also won one singles title and was as high as No. 35 in the world rankings in …

by Tom Renner

05/23/2011

Darien, CT

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Darien Challenger Athletes Play Ball! Players in the Darien Challenger Little League program ran, threw and hit during a clinic Saturday at McGuane Park. The Challenger program is for children with special needs, and it is the state's largest with nearly 30 participants. The players work with teenage buddies, who help the athletes with their skills. On Saturday, members of the Darien High School baseball team joined in to help the Challenger athletes. Charlie Santos-Buch started the program, now in its 12th year, to allow players to play baseball in a setting that is fun and supportive. What are your impressions of the Challeng…

by Tom Renner

05/23/2011

Eastchester, NY

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Eastchester Baseball Kids Show Major League Skills Boys and girls from Eastchester pitched, hit and ran Saturday during the sectionals of a skills competition sponsored by Major League Baseball in Fairfield, Connecticut. Players from Fairfeld County, Connecticut and Westchester County competed for a spot in the regionals, which will be held at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. The regional winners will compete in the national competition at the Major League Baseball All-Star game in July. The event is similar to football's Punt, Pass and Kick competition. Players were awarded points for the number of strikes that they threw, how swiftl…

by Tom Renner

05/23/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Norwalk Rowing Coach Balances Training, Teaching The coaching bug bit New Canaan's Nate Kelly hard. But Kelly, the assistant to Yan Vengerovskiy at the Norwalk-based Maritime Rowing Club, is not done competing. Thus, the 23-year-old St. Luke's and Trinity College graduate is faced with a balancing conundrum that is not easily solved. There are not enough hours in the day to train for a shot at making a national rowing team as well as to dedicate himself to the New Canaan girls crew team, which he coaches for Maritime. He squeezes each day like a lemon, getting the last drop of energy out of himself and his young rowers. "It makes …

by Tom Renner

05/22/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Rain Holds Up Baseball Playoffs The rain that has wreaked havoc all week with Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference baseball returned Saturday and forced the postponement of the New Canaan-Brien McMahon softball game. It also changed the schedule for next week's league playoffs. New Canaan, which has already qualified for the playoffs, will play McMahon Monday at 4. The Rams also have a game at Trumbull Sunday at 2. Since the regular-season is not complete, the FCIAC playoffs will now start on Tuesday. The semifinals have been pushed to Thursday and the championship game to Saturday, May 28. New Canaan an…

by Tom Renner

05/21/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Young Ballplayers Swing for the Fences Boys and girls pitched, hit and ran Saturday in the sectionals of a skills competition sponsored by Major League Baseball. Players from Fairfeld and Westchester competed for a spot in the regionals, which will be held at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. The regional winners will compete in the national competition at the Major League Baseball All-Star game in July. The event is similar to football's punt, pass and kick competition. Players were awarded points for the number of strikes they throw, how swiftly they run the bases and how far they hit the ball off of a tee. Sectional winn…

by Tom Renner

05/21/2011

Norwalk, CT

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High School Scoreboard FCIAC Scoreboard for Friday, May 21 Baseball Greenwich 5, Staples 4 Norwalk 12, Bridgeport Central 2 New Canaan 8, Westhill 0 St. Joseph 9, Stamford 3 Ludlowe 3, Ridgefield 2 (9) Danbury 4, Trumbull 3 Softball Fairfield Warde 1, Darien 0 Westhill 2, New Canaan 0 St. Joseph 2, Stamford 1 St. Joseph 12, Harding 0 Trinity Catholic 9, Wilton 8 Staples 5, Greenwich 2 Ludlowe 2, Ridgefield 1 Danbury 12, Trumbull 4 Girls Lacrosse Quarterfinals Staples 15, Ridgefield 9 New Canaan 13, Greenwich 2 Darien 11, Ludlowe 9 Wilton 15, Danbury 3 Girls Tennis Quarterfinals Fairfield Ludl…

by Tom Renner

05/21/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Semfinals Set in Girls Lacrosse Top-seeded Staples defeated Ridgefield, 15-9, as the top four seeds advanced in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference girls lacrosse tournament on Friday. In other games, No. 2 New Canaan took out Greenwich, 13-2; No. 4 Darien nipped No. 5 Ludlowe, 11-9, and No. 3 Wilton toppled Danbury, 15-3. The semifinals are set for Monday at New Canaans Dunning Field. New Canaan meets Wilton at 5:15, followed by Staples vs. Darien at 7. The championship game is scheduled for Friday at Brien McMahon at 4 p.m. To view the FCIAC girls lacrosse bracket, visit Main Street Connects FCI…

by Tom Renner

05/21/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Local Rowers Win at National Selection Regatta Rowayton's Brian de Regt and New Canaan's Charlie Cole earned the opportunity to travel to Europe for a World Cup event of their choosing and race for a place on the roster of the national team that will compete this summer at the 2011 World Championships in Bled, Slovenia. Both won races at the USRowing National Selection Regatta last week in New Jersey. De Regt, rowing in the men's lightweight double sculls final with New Haven's Jon Winter, led the entire way. They finished in 6:38.77. "It was a good race," de Regt told USRowing. "We got off the line the way we wanted to, and we were able…

by Tom Renner

05/21/2011

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